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Genroku 8 (元禄八年) *[[Edo]] suffers a great fire. Some 350 men and 40 women die in the fire at the [[Kii Edo mansion]] alone.

Genroku 16 (元禄十六年) * Genroku 15/12/14 (30 January 1703) - [[47 Ronin|Forty-seven]] former retainers of t

...d run by the [[Morita family]] of actors until its destruction in the 1923 Great Kantô earthquake which destroyed much of Tokyo. ...our were destroyed in the [[1703]] [[1703 Genroku earthquake|Great Genroku fire]], and rebuilt, there began a tradition of co-producing plays for New Year'

...eireki Fire]], the [[Oshichi fire]] of [[1682]], the fires caused by the [[Genroku Earthquake]] of [[1703]], and those created by the [[Ansei Earthquake]] of Over the course of its history, the Nakamura-za also saw the premieres of a great many famous kabuki plays. [[Ichikawa Danjuro I|Ichikawa Danjûrô I]] playe

...ku, representing literature, is considered one of the key figures in the [[Genroku period]], marking the emergence of new Edo period forms of popular culture *''[[Oshichi fire|Yaoya Monogatari]]'' ("The Tale of Yaoya", 1686)

...d, as constructed beginning in 710, was entered via a Nandaimon ("southern great gate") to the south, and then via a Chûmon ("middle gate") to the north of ...as stoned to death for harming one of the sacred Kasuga [[deer]]. In the [[Genroku period]], [[Chikamatsu Monzaemon]] wrote a puppet play about this story, ca

...to the deity [[Fudo Myoo|Fudô Myôô]], and is famous for its ''[[ogoma]]'' fire rituals. ...nd at Narita in [[Shimousa province]], stopped and performed an ''o-goma'' fire ritual for 21 days. At the end of the 21 days, the rebellion was ended, and

...aster walls, and accessible only by a single point of entrance/egress, the Great Gate, or Yoshiwara-Ômon. A sign was placed just outside the gate declaring ...ast [[Asakusa]] to the northeast, just before the [[1657]] [[Great Meireki Fire]] which destroyed much of Edo. It remained in that new location through the

...k of the theater), at a spot called ''shichi-san'' (lit. "seven-three"). A great many of the most famous and dramatic moments in kabuki occur at ''shichi-sa ...ghtfall, both for reasons of public morality, and because of the danger of fire, but they also repeatedly relented or eased up on such regulations. Many of

...ducing new coin in 958. By the time of the issuing of the ''Engi taihô'' ("Great Laws of Engi," c. [[901]]-[[923]]), the currency had become debased, meanin ...nough to fund the construction of a dozen or more buildings. However, this great influx of Chinese coins caused the prices (or values) of rice, silk, and ce

...Buddhist, Confucian, and other Chinese texts continued to be published in great numbers in the Tokugawa period, strongly demanded and consumed by certain s ...xts, as it had more or less always been, while Osaka publishers produced a great many more practical works, such as encyclopedias; popular literature, meanw